Chapter 455: Whose Shadow?-III

A/N: Today chapter is only one because the author is high with fever

Elise had so many questions in her mind about her father whom she only knew his name of without knowing how he looked like. It was only a moment ago from Lucifer's words that she learned it was her father who had locked her memories, putting it aside, why?

Esther glowered to Ian, her teeth was set on edge. Elise took a deep breath, "Continuing from earlier, I want to know the reason why you had spread the false rumors all over the village, that I had a sister."

Esther looked at Elise, as for now she was still certain she won't be killed. Having the disadvantages here, all her cards had been stolen from under her nose, she obediently understood her choices, "I needed to find you," came her reply after a while. Elise knew the woman couldn't lie with two demons across her and both could tell the lies if she told, "believe me that all I wanted to do was to find you."

"Why?" Elise inquired, "You can searched me in a normal way, not with a lie."

"I also need to gain your trust," answered Esther and noticing how Elise wasn't happy with her reply, she quickly posed a question that will interest her instead, "Do you know what the Demon's Bride is?"

Elise raised her brows, she reckoned how Esther seemed to know a lot more things about her than she did. All she heard about the Demon's Bride was negatives, that she would kill her own groom that never made any sense in her. "The bride who would kill her groom," answered Elise and the woman nodded her head slowly.

Esther said, "Everyone, and by that I mean all angels, demons, relics, and other beings in this world knew that killing a Demon won't be easy. A saying was passed on about a human bride who would kill a demon soon in the future. No one believed it at first about such rumors, but the saying had never been wrong. For a human to kill a demon is compatible to an any trying to kill an elephant. It was impossible. Everyone was curious of that power and without the need of proof, I can tell you that you have become the number one hunting target lol all the creatures. Especially after the show you put on the village."

"You know about what happened," Elise said, tipping her gaze down.

Esther knew soon enough this question would come. Sucking more breaths to ease her nerves, she then slowly said, "I am not proud of it but I worked for the dark sorcerers."

Esther knew the hatred Elise had against dark sorcerers. She also knew his dangerous it was to claim herself as the focus of her most hatred person. The air of the room shifted all of a sudden. Elise who was quiet then took a step forward. When her hand touched the iron bar, it begin to change color and crust, spreading up and down to the entire iron bar.

"Did you killed people with the disguise of a dark sorcerer?" was Elise's first question. Esther who was on the ground then witness how Elise's eyes sparkled in hint of golden instead of red. 

"I didn't," Esther said but faced with danger now and her shaking voice, she was hardly believable and sounded only like a person who wish to save their own life. "I only wanted to find you but finding you was difficult so I had no choice but to act as if I work with them. They goes morally different from me so I never aided in any fight."

"How can we believe that?" Ian, who had been watching from the sideline helped Elise to find out what the woman was hiding. "For all we know you are only one dirty sewer rat filled with lies. Your reason is not clear, why are you searching for Elise? For what? All I can hear in my ears is that you wish for her power."

"Gabriel asked me to," answered Esther, revealing her intention with her eyes shut tight. "The Archangel Gabriel was the person who asked for me to hide amongst the dark sorcerer, mixing between them to gain the Dark Sorcerer Lord's trust while at the same time, finding you."

"Gabriel doesn't know about Elise," Ian then said but he crooked his brows. When he met Gabriel, he appeared to not know of Elise's existence, and seemed to be searching for Lucifer's child for no reason which now he knew wasn't Elise and instead was him. "We met before but your reason is not matching." The angel who was said to cannot lie since the moment he was created was lying? 

Elise remembered Gabriel was the Angel who had fought against Ian in the loop forest she had never seen the Angel before. "What did he want from me?" she asked, her power too like others?

"He didn't specifically mentioned it was Elise but the Demon's Bride, and though we shared the same aspire, he didn't elaborate on what he wanted from her. He told me that once I have found you, we will meet on our usual place and discuss his next plan," Esther explained.

Elise's mind the goes back to Lucifer's conversation they had upstairs. The Demon claimed he had been set up by an Angel to kill Serpahim, another Archangel. Seeing the way Gabriel had been sneaking around, Elise suspected the Angel to might be the suspect of this all.

She looked at Ian who was also in a deep thought, "Do you think Gabriel is the one Lucifer mention?"

Ian shook his head, indicating how he wasn't certain either. Everything was just a large guess between them without any solid proof, "This aspire you mentioned what is it? Why does Gabriel worked with you too knowing that you are a Demon?"

"You should know that Gabriel isn't like any other Angel who discriminate between Demons and Angels," said Esther in defend, "What we wanted wasn't danger to Elise but instead to protect her."

"From who?" Elise asked, not understanding the reason as she had never seen Gabriel before but the Angel wish to help her.

"From the Angel who had been plotting under our nose, the one who wish for destruction," said Esther. The frown on Elise's forehead the frowned.

Ian took her stead and asked, "Is this Angel you spoke of is the same one who had plotted against Lucifer?"